Traveller Universal Magazine Profile (UMP)

Format is:

    Era Length Count Type Format Country - Region
  

Examples:

• Challenge: 3ABB4A-1
• Freelance Traveller: 7EGE8A-0
• High Passage: 122C5A-2
• JTAS v1: 177A5A-1
• JTAS v2: 521A0A-0
• JTAS v4: 842A7A-1
• The Traveller's Digest: 267C1A-G

Era of Publication. General time period of publication, mostly categorized by major Traveller edition from the time. Usually flagged as the publication of the first issue, except when the vast majority of publication happened in a different era.

• 1 — Antiquity Traveller (1977-1981)
• 2 — Classic Traveller (1982-1986)
• 3 — MegaTraveller (1987-1992)
• 4 — The New Era (1993-1995)
• 5 — The T4 Era (1996-1997)
• 6 — The Long Night (1998-2007)
• 7 — First Mongoose Imperium (2008-2015)
• 8 — Second Mongoose Imperium (2016-Present)

Length of Publication. Year of last publication minus year of first publication plus 1.

Issue Count. Count of published issues, including any specials or annuals.

• 1 — 1-3.
• 2 — 4-6.
• 3 — 7-9.
• 4 — 10-12.
• 5 — 13-15.
• 6 — 16-20.
• 7 — 21-25.
• 8 — 25-30.
• 9 — 35-40.
• A — 41-50.
• B — 51-60.
• C — 61-70.
• D — 71-80.
• E — 81-90.
• F — 91-100.
• G — 101-150.

Type. The categorization of the magazine.

• A — Official Traveller magazine.
• B — House organ including Traveller.
• C — Licensed Traveller magazine
• D — General science-fiction magazine.
• E — Traveller fanzine.
• H — HIWG fanzine.
• X — General RPG magazine.

Format. A bitmask identifying what format the magazine was printed in.

The four bits are:

• 0001 = printed as digest
• 0010 = printed as hardcover
• 0100 = reprinted electronically (officially)
• 1000 = initially printed electronically

Logically ANDing the bits results in the following major format categories:

• 0 — Full-sized print.
• 1 — Digest-sized print.
• 2 — Full-sized hardcover.
• 3 — Digest-sized hardcover.
• 4 — Full-sized print, reprinted electronically.
• 5 — Digest-sized print, reprinted electronically.
• 6 — Full-sized hardcover, reprinted electronically.
• 7 — Digest-sized hardcover, reprinted electronically..
• 8 — Full-sized electronic.
• 9 — Digest-sized electronic.
• X — Undefined format.

Country of Origin. Country where magazine was published.

• A — United States.
• B — United Kingdom.
• C — Canada.
• D — Australia.
• X — Other.

Region. Main Area of Play

• 0 — No official area.
• 1 — Spinward Marches
• 2 — The Old Expanses.
• 3 — Reaver's Deep.
• 4 — Trojan Reach.
• D — Deneb Sector
• E — Empty Quarter
• F — Foreven Sector
• G — A Grand Tour of the Imperium.
• H — The Hinterworlds.
• V — Dagudashaag Sector.
• X — Non-Canon Creation.